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Author: Peter Kunz
Publisher: Fair Play Publishing
Imprint: Fair Play Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 4.60cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.475kg
ISBN: 9780648407362
ISBN 10: 0648407365
Pages: 330
Publication Date: 31 July 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
I had no idea football existed in some of these places back then let alone some of the fascinating insights such as the influence of the Chinese in Darwin's football history, or that the Coledale club sent off carrier pigeons to convey the half- and full-time scores against North Wollongong to its distant fans. Peter shows us that the fascinating social and international dimensions of soccer in Australia have been there from the start. His bold undertaking of covering club football in Australia up to 1949 reveals great insights into soccer and Australian society for the following decades. Andrew Howe, Australian football statistician and author of the 'Encyclopedia of Socceroos' and 'Encyclopedia of Matildas'
"""I had no idea football existed in some of these places back then let alone some of the fascinating insights such as the influence of the Chinese in Darwin's football history, or that the Coledale club sent off carrier pigeons to convey the half- and full-time scores against North Wollongong to its distant fans. ""Peter shows us that the fascinating social and international dimensions of soccer in Australia have been there from the start. His bold undertaking of covering club football in Australia up to 1949 reveals great insights into soccer and Australian society for the following decades."" Andrew Howe, Australian football statistician and author of the 'Encyclopedia of Socceroos' and 'Encyclopedia of Matildas'"
Author Information
Peter Kunz is a retired Canberra-based librarian and researcher who has worked for cultural institutions such as the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive. From the late 1960s he played amateur soccer in Canberra and was also a soccer referee and a correspondent for the Soccer World newspaper in the 1970s. He was a keen supporter of the defunct Canberra City and Canberra Cosmos NSL clubs. His principal interest has been historical research, which has led to investigation of the early development of soccer in Australia as well as the curation of Australian soccer memorabilia. Son of an Australian mother and a Hungarian immigrant, Peter's formative years were spent in Sydney in the early 1960s watching and supporting the St George-Budapest soccer club.
